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Inline lists in LaTeX using paralist

The paralist package implements the three standard lists: itemize, enumerate and description for usage within paragraphs. In other words, the package provides a way to create inline lists placed within normal text.

Besides the inline environments for the standard lists, the package also provides support to format the labels (bullets, numbering, etc.). However, for labeling and formatting of lists in general, I recommend the more powerful enumitem package. Please, see the paralistpackage documentation for more details on the functionality provided by the package.

The code for inline lists is straight forward and resamples the way standard lists are created. Therefore, I only posted one minimal working example for each environment below, without further explanations.

For more details on the standard list environments see this post and sample code here.

Inline enumerate (inparaenum)

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{paralist}
\begin{document}
This includes:
\begin{inparaenum}[1)]
\item first task,
\item second task and
\item third task
\end{inparaenum}
to be completed by the end of the month.
\end{document}

Inline itemize (inparaitem)

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{paralist}
\begin{document}
This includes:
\begin{inparaitem}
\item first task,
\item second task and
\item third task
\end{inparaitem}
to be completed by the end of the month.
\end{document}

Inline description (inparadesc)

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{paralist}
\begin{document}
This includes:
\begin{inparadesc}
\item[Task] first task,
\item[Task] second task and
\item[Task] third task
\end{inparadesc}
to be completed by the end of the month.
\end{document}

According to the author, the last environment was added for completeness rather than usefulness.

I can’t think of any real uses for inparaitem and inparadesc, but would be interested if someone came up with anything. If there are enough good examples, I would appreciate another post on it. I think it would be worth it just to get some examples web searchable.

Thanks for the great blog.
I wanted to know how i can generate a custom label (say AI# for Action item) and an automatic counter that would increase the AI# while i write the document and point out the action items along the text (over a few pages).
the result would be: